Improvement in methods of ornamenting skirts



I. HAUSER.

Method at Ornamenting Skirts, 8w.

Patented June 8,1875

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UNITE ISIDOR HAUSER, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO LOUIS DRYFOOS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN METHODS OF ORNAMENTING SKIRTS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No 164,297, dated June 8, 1875; application filed March 5, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISIDOR HAUSER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Ornamentation of Skirts and other articles; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

Skirts have heretofore been ornamented by printing and flockingt'. 0., by the application, upon the surface of the body of the skirt, of colored pigments or fibrous matter mixed with or spread upon a suitable adhesive substance. Skirts have been so ornamented in one or more colors.

The object of this invention is to produce new eifects of ornamentation in varying the color or general tone of the groundwork to which designs produced as above stated, by printing or otherwise, are applied; and it is efl'ected, in accordance with my invention, by the use of medallions or other sections, or ornamental patches, of a color different from that of the body of the skirt, which patches are applied symmetrically or in a regular series, by sewing or otherwise, upon the main body of the skirt. Such medallions or patches, which maybe ornamented by printing or otherwise, are arranged with special reference to the printed or flocked ornamentation of the main body of the skirt.

To carry into efi'ect this mode of ornamenting skirts, I proceed as follows: If, for instance, the groundwork of the main body of the skirt be gray, and is to be relieved by blue patches, I print upon blue cloth the ornamental figures of medallions, leaves, or otherwise-shaped patches, in close proximity to each other, so as to leave just room enough between the patches to enable one to neatly cut them out. The main body of the skirt, on the other hand, is ornamented, by printing or otherwise, in such a way as to leave in the pattern, at the proper points, spaces, into which the patches are afterward fitted and secured by sewing or otherwise.

The sections or patches, when thus placed, are incorporated in and become an integral part of the design or pattern.

It is obvious that the patches may be made all of one or of various colors. In the latter case, good effects may be produced by alternatin g two colors-for instance, on a gray skirt, blue and red, or green and yellow, patches.

I have described this my new mode of ornamentation as applied to skirts but other articles, such as curtains, table, billiard, piano covers, &c., may be ornamented in a similar manner. Y

The patches may also be used without being ornamented by printing or flocking.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a representation of a portion of a skirt-border ornamented in accordance with my invention. The printed portion of the design impressed on the main skirt-body is indicated at (t. I) are spaces left to be filled in with the orna' mental patches. One of these spaces is repsesented as filled up with a patch or section, 0. The patch or section is shown detached in Fig. 2.

In conclusion, Iwould state that I do not claim the application, to a skirt, of a strip of fabric differingin color from that of the fabric composing the skirt; nor do I claim the printing or coloring of the two fabrics with the same color along the line of their junction.

WVhat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The described improvementin the art of ornamenting skirts and other articles, which consists in printing or embossing upon said article the desired ornamental pattern or design, in which are left spaces, as described, then applying to said spaces patches or medallions of fabric differing in color from the fabric of which the body of the skirt or other article is composed, said patches or medallionswhen thus placedbcing incorporated in and becoming an integral part of the printed or embossed design or pattern, as shown and set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 19th day of February, A. D. 1875.

ISIDOR HAU SER.

Witnesses:

J. O. JULIUS LANGBEIN, F. DELLEVIE. 

